Acquired from Wikipedia Article
Bobbing along editing and an author refers to string cheese, in a fantasy with all the normal medieval and renaissance mish-mash. Wait … is string cheese medieval?
Off to do research, and the answer is “no”. In 1976, Wisconsin cheese-maker Frank Baker decide to see if he could make the normal stretchy-stringy mozzarella properties even more-so to create a light snack people can take with them for lunch. Through a heating and manipulation process to align the proteins, strings of cheese resulted.
The small individually packed cheese product caught on in the 80’s as a child novelty lunch-snack. In the 90’s the Adkin and similar low-carb diets kicked it higher. Now, for the Baker family, string cheese is their only product.
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Channel 3000 (youtube channel) “What Makes String Cheese Stringy?” 2009 November 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl2den0QVrA – last viewed 5/1/2022.
Dairy foods (youtube channel). “What makes Baker Cheese’s string cheese production unique.” 2020 March 19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqFvsNA2GJY – last viewed 5/1/2022.
Higgins, Daniel. “Baker Cheese masters art of string cheese”. Green Bay Press Gazette / USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. 2017 June 6. https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/life/food/2017/06/06/wisconsin-cheesemaker-baker-cheese-masters-the-art-of-string-cheese/96198296/ – last viewed 5/1/2022.
Wikipedia. “String cheese.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_cheese – last viewed 5/1/2022.